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JimE wrote:The only exception I can recall was for farmers, as in having a rifle in the cab of a tractor while working. But that might have changed now.
High Power wrote:Just to be clear on this (about rifles - not SBRs), I can carry the rifle as long as it isn't loaded.
(1) In a closed package, box, or case;
(2) In a compartment that can be reached only by leaving the vehicle;
(3) In plain sight and secured in a rack or holder made for the purpose;
(4) If the firearm is at least twenty-four inches in overall length as measured from the muzzle to the part of the stock furthest from the muzzle and if the barrel is at least eighteen inches in length, either in plain sight with the action open or the weapon stripped, or, if the firearm is of a type on which the action will not stay open or which cannot easily be stripped, in plain sight.
High Power wrote:The statute changed some time ago, permitting loaded magazines, as long as they were not in the rifle and in a seperate case or pocket and you have to exit the vehicle to get to the rifle and/or the magazine.
Am I correct on that?
JustaShooter wrote:Well, all you are going to get in here are opinions as well. So, here's mine lol:
An Ohio Concealed Handgun License would allow you to keep an AR pistol (or any other firearm considered a handgun under Ohio law) in your motor vehicle loaded, whether openly or concealed.
Getting a tax stamp for an SBR wouldn't change anything *until* you actually changed the firearm's configuration into an SBR - for example, by removing the handgun buffer tube and replacing it with a rifle buffer tube and stock. Once you do that, it is no longer a handgun under Ohio law but becomes a Dangerous Ordnance, and you cannot have it loaded in your motor vehicle and must conform to the rules for transporting a dangerous ordnance.
(K) "Dangerous ordnance" means any of the following, except as provided in division (L) of this section:
(1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zip-gun, or ballistic knife;
(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid, and other high explosives; amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol, and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder, and other blasting agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as a military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating, or demolitions;
(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo, or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that weapon;
(5) Any firearm muffler or suppressor;
(6) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
(F) "Sawed-off firearm" means a shotgun with a barrel less than eighteen inches long, or a rifle with a barrel less than sixteen inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than twenty-six inches long overall.
JustaShooter wrote:High Power wrote:Just to be clear on this (about rifles - not SBRs), I can carry the rifle as long as it isn't loaded.
It must be unloaded *and* transported in one of the following ways to be legal in Ohio:(1) In a closed package, box, or case;
(2) In a compartment that can be reached only by leaving the vehicle;
(3) In plain sight and secured in a rack or holder made for the purpose;
(4) If the firearm is at least twenty-four inches in overall length as measured from the muzzle to the part of the stock furthest from the muzzle and if the barrel is at least eighteen inches in length, either in plain sight with the action open or the weapon stripped, or, if the firearm is of a type on which the action will not stay open or which cannot easily be stripped, in plain sight.High Power wrote:The statute changed some time ago, permitting loaded magazines, as long as they were not in the rifle and in a seperate case or pocket and you have to exit the vehicle to get to the rifle and/or the magazine.
Am I correct on that?
As I understand it, with a CHL, the loaded magazines can be anywhere in the vehicle *except* inserted into the long gun, they do not have to be stored separately. Without a CHL, your statement is mostly correct - there is no requirement to have to exit the vehicle to retrieve the magazine or rifle.
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